are we writing ourselves off?

[cacian]

Imagine every story written has its chunk of our reality .
Could it be possible that for every story out there is its equivalent of reality? after all life is a stage where everyone is a performer and what comes around goes around.

what say you?

[osho]

Every story has no its equivalence of reality. Reality is not imagination. Stories may have great chunks of reality and at times huge use of imagination. Reality confines or de wings us and we cannot go beyond set boundary lines

[cacian]

Every story has no its equivalence of reality. Reality is not imagination. Stories may have great chunks of reality and at times huge use of imagination. Reality confines or de wings us and we cannot go beyond set boundary lines

Interesting but I am no longer so sure that reality is not in someway what we predict it to be in writing. I think of Pretty Woman and I think of Hugh Grant. There is a fine line there.

[MANICHAEAN]

Dear Cacian

To my mind, it’s a one way system in that you write based on the reality of your own experiences, but never the other way round. That’s where the imagination comes in; to embellish and polish, to go off on complete tangential forays and then finally to bring the story in from the storm to a haven of literary equipoise.
Best regards
M.

[osho]

In fact fiction is not the alternative term for reality it is just the opposite. Though we write about society but mostly it is a fictionalized version of reality. With that said our social events or the realities we live by get reflected through our writings. But creativity is piecing together different thoughts or we translate our ranges of,experiences into beautiful pieces of literature. We amalgamate ranges of thoughts.

Writing is itself is an imaginary activity since we can interpret or translate the reality we live in easily since we run short of the words we may need to express our deep thoughts and feelings. Few writers have succeeded in presenting their realities as they see and they mainly fictionalize them. We have in fact not been able to give expression to our thoughts.

[cacian]

I guess to imagine is to enforce an idea into someone else's mind. The same with films the more one knows about something the more one becomes it.
That is what I mean by writing ourselves off. Everything we do is self contained around us and so it must go somewhere. I feel that we are mere replica of what we write.

[cacian]

Dear Cacian

To my mind, it’s a one way system in that you write based on the reality of your own experiences, but never the other way round. That’s where the imagination comes in; to embellish and polish, to go off on complete tangential forays and then finally to bring the story in from the storm to a haven of literary equipoise.
Best regards
M.
A literary equipoise. Well if I understand equipoise it comes from ''quipped'' with means team. We write in a certain way to equip ourselves with it. Whether are shielded against is another matter. Are putting the cattle before the cart? I am guessing most of us do not understand what we write although we are most definitely entuned with it. Whether it is entuned with us is another question.